Chinese leader Xi Jinping wants to instill loyalty in all Chinese citizens—beginning with elementary school students. As students across the country return from summer break in September, they’ll find one more course on their curriculum: “Xi Jinping Thought.” The new drive for ideological control will run from grade school through college. The mandatory textbook, titled “Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics in the New Era,” will have five editions, to be taught to students in grades three, five, eight, and 10 on a weekly basis. The book aims to “gradually shape students’ support for the Party’s leadership and the socialist system,” a recent notice from the Ministry of Education reads. The move, coupled with an escalating clampdown on Western materials in classrooms, points to the regime’s desire to strengthen ideological control, starting by shaping the world view of the youngest generation, experts say. “If you control education, you, …
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